What is it about?
We conducted a study in which typical first graders and one child with autism received six sessions of a oral narrative-based language intervention and monitored the quality of their story writing.
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Why is it important?
Most people believe there is a connection from oral language to writing; however, the research that establishes this is correlational not causal. This is the first study to suggest that intervening with an oral language intervention can improve writing skills--evidence of a causal link between oral and written language.
Perspectives
Educators believe their job is to teach reading, writing, and arithmetic, with little understanding of their language foundation. They are simply not prepared well enough to promote academic language sufficiently for strong reading and writing to be build upon it. We believe this study directs attention to the power of oral language instruction, not only for children with disabilities but for typical children too. Moreover, differentiation for diverse children is much more achievable via oral language modality than in writing instruction.
Dr Trina D Spencer
University of Kansas
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This page is a summary of: Bridging Oral and Written Language: An Oral Narrative Language Intervention Study With Writing Outcomes, Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, July 2018, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA),
DOI: 10.1044/2018_lshss-17-0030.
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